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Call for Book Chapters of All Shapes and Sizes! Improvising across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument. Share your research, experiences, and stories about the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) in this collaborative volume.

Short Takes from the February 2018 Improv Notes.

Kimber Sider’s short film, Coin du Banc en Folie / Musical Improvisation At Land’s End, will be screening March 13th at the Toronto Short Film Festival.

Your monthly does of Short Takes – the recent happenings in the world of improvisation, from the January 2018 edition of Improv Notes.

We are extremely excited to co-present with Musagetes, The Story of Sim Cheong: A daughter and her blind father – a p’ansori concert at the ArtsEverywhere Festival 2018!

Short Takes appears monthly in the IICSI newsletter Improv Notes Improv Notes is edited and written by David Lee and assembled by administrative assistant Rachel Collins. If you have anything…

The IICSI is pleased to welcome Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning as an IICSI postdoctoral fellow for the 2017-18 academic year.

Photographs of Improviser-in-Residence, Kade L. Twist and collaborators, Priya Shah, Jeji Varghese, Madhur Anand, Cherish Blood, Lacey Hill and Heather Majaury, performing “That’s Just Indians Being Indians.”

Ajay Heble receives $2 million to build an “ImprovLab” at University of Guelph – article in The Ontarian.

Poet and interdisciplinary artist Kade. L Twist is the 2017 IICSI & Musagetes Improviser-in-Residence. During his time in Guelph, Kade will be working with members of the Indian and Indigenous communities to workshop and create a score for a collaborative vocal performance that will premiere at Silence, 46 Essex Street in Guelph on Friday December 8th from 7-9 pm.